Minimalistic yet durable plank

If you think a keyboard needs to have macros and flashy lights to look good, think again. We recently got hands on withFeenix's Autore mechanical keyboard in our second product unboxing video and we were quite satisfied with the build quality and overall construction. It's so heavy that we would consider it as our weapon of choice during the zombie apocolypse, and it looks pretty sweet, too.

As regular readers of Maximum PC know, Dream Machine is our annual revelry of Pure PC Power. This rig is a VIP lounge for cutting-edge parts and balls-out performance, and any attempts at prudence or moderation get bounced. This year, we’ve enhanced our usual telling of the Dream Machine story with a video tour of the PC itself and videos of each individual component—all narrated by Dream Machine arbiter and deputy editor Gordon Mah Ung. Check out the videos here and click through to each component to hear Gordon do what he does best - talk about hardware.

Ms. Hilton! I must say, it is a pleasure to know that you’re a reader of our fine publication. Today we’ve got a wonderful story just for you, and it’ s all about an exceptional machine that will match perfectly with your comically undersized dog of the week.

China’s very own Eazo is offering a jeweled up PC that will come in many different colors, depending on what your desk is looking. Just make sure that you don’t throw off your feng shui!

The Eazo F20-SE Xing Crystal packs an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 processor and a Western Digital Green Power 1 TB HDD for storing all those important documents. So far though, there’s no word on how much memory is installed or what kind of graphics processing is available.

And while you’re looking at just how attractive this PC will look next to the pictures of your family, fifth car, and private jet pull out your wallet. This little beast will run you a fresh $70,000 for the top end model.

Race fans, fire up your wallets! AMD’s first 45nm chip, the Shanghai quad-core has finally made its appearance at online resellers.

These bad boys aren’t cheap, either. The quad-core 2.7GHz chip will run potential buyers $2,499 over at PC Connection and $2,240 (for the chip without any fan) over at Buy.com. And these prices are pretty standard all the way across the board.

Admittedly, expectations might be low for these chips considering the debacle caused by the massive delays of Barcelona due to the production issues. Still, AMD’s hopes remain high. Shanghai is currently in full production, and supposed to have a 20 percent performance boost over Barcelona. There have also been confirmations from the likes of Sun Microsystems for plans to offer the chip in current x64 platforms that are running Barcelona by as early as Q1 2009.

While these chips do offer surprisingly low power consumption for a quad core chip (only 75 watts) and some burly clock speeds, the prices are pretty difficult to swallow. Although, to be fair, they’re meant for servers… or badasses.